There never came another who looked upon Maori and pakeha with the same equal and comprehensive love.
Why should not he in his own way co-operate with thepakeha in upholding the law of the one Christ?
It was passing into the hands of the more violent Rewi, who longed for war with the pakeha as keenly as some of the Taranaki settlers longed for war with the Maori.
In the spelling of Maori names Bishop Williams' authority has always been followed except when a place is looked at from the pakeha or colonial point of view.
The Pakeha Maori was present in a darkened village-hall when the spirit of a young man, a great friend of his own, was called up by a tohunga.
The hearts of the Maori were sad, and our old pakeha friends looked melancholy, because so few ships came to bring them goods to trade with.
Some said the Governor only wanted our consent to remain, to be a chief over the pakeha people; others said he wanted to be chief over both pakeha and Maori.
After the demand for arms was supplied, came a perfect furore for iron tools, instruments of husbandry, clothing, and all kinds of pakeha manufactures.
I can only hint there was something said about the law, and driving the pakeha into the sea.
Some of us thought the Governor wanted to bewitch all the chiefs,[7] but our pakeha friends laughed at this, and told us that the people of Europe did not know how to bewitch people.
The whole of the inhabitants were in a great state of commotion and curiosity, for many of them had never seen a pakeha before.
I could hear them say to the people behind, "The pakeha has stood up!
In return Ihaka sent an invitation to the pakeha maiden and her friends to visit him and his daughter at his pah.
Just as if Maori girl put on Lucy's dress, and hat and shawl over face, and go into a pakeha house, people say here come pakeha girl.
Lucy sat for some time by the side of Waihoura, who showed no inclination to go to sleep; she evidently was astonished at finding herself in an English bed, and watched over by a fair pakeha girl instead of her own dark-skinned people.
Tell pakehadoctor come, or Waihoura die--pakeha doctor make Waihoura well.
That is a strange thing the pakeha girl says," remarked Rahana to Waihoura.
In pakeha country they good people love Jesus, and do good, and no bad.
Nga Pakeha i Akarana is the subject, and tokomaha the predicate.
Ma nga Pakeha e tohe, kaua e noho, If the Europeans press (to stop with them) do not remain.
He tokomaha nga Pakeha i Akarana, many are the foreigners in Auckland.
Tarapipipi's: kei nga Pakeha ta matou whakaaro, ta nga tangata Maori, with the Europeans are the sentiments of us, of the New Zealanders.
The forest falls before the axe of the Pakeha; the Maori birds have flown away, and strange Pakeha birds fly above the new cornfields; the Pakeha rat has chased away the kiore; there arePakeha boats on our waters, Pakeha fish in our rivers.
Several of thePakeha ladies present tried to pacify the outraged Maori feeling, but without avail.
His view is that I, in my incomprehensible Pakeha way, imagine the thing to be an anti-rain fetish; a notion which superior Maori wisdom has found to be erroneous.
This was the land of the Maori before the Pakeha came out of the sea.
If they were not good enough for Pakeha men to dance with, they had no further business there!
And presently twenty couples took the floor--we Pakehamen and the dusky daughters of the land; and Old Colonial and Rakope waltzed fast and furiously at the head.
The rubbing of noses is now disused; and when a Maori confers it on a Pakeha it means an extra display of feeling, almost a making brotherhood.
Feeling that his health was becoming impaired by his devotion to this Pakeha fetish, and that consideration finally overcoming his pride in its possession, he returned the watch to Old Colonial.
A few yards below the kainga is the beach, where a capital boat shows that Tama prefers Pakeha workmanship to the native article--a canoe that also lies near.
He carries on affairs of state in a manner blended of Maori and Pakeha usages.
At this time most of the villages had at least one European resident called a Pakeha Maori, under the protection of a chief of rank and influence, and married to a relative of his, either legally or by native custom.
He had a visitor that morning, the Pakeha Maori, Laming.
Next day the bishop went further up the river to Wherinaki, where Laming, a pakeha Maori, resided.
If the visitor was a "pakeha tutua," a poor European, he might receive hospitality for a time, in the hope that some profit might be made out of him.
If we can do it, we are right; and if the pakeha beat us, they will be right too.
I was the first pakeha who had ever arrived at a certain populous inland village.
The pakeha was drowning the Maori for utu for himself, in case he should be drowned.
We shall drive thepakeha into the sea, and send the Law after them!
I do not understand the pakeha way of beginning a story in the middle; so to start fair, I must fairly get on shore, which, I am surprised to find, was easier to do than to describe.
Trench after trench was taken at the bayonet point byPakeha and Maori.
Many a proud rangitira served his country in the ranks, an example to some of his Pakeha brothers.
In the picture are Maori and Pakeha New Zealanders, Australians, Englishmen, and Indians.
The martial instincts of Maori and Pakeha were at once aroused.
One of the kind, Maning by name, who lived with a tribe on the beautiful inlet of Hokianga, will always be known as the Pakeha Maori.
Pakeha is the native word for white people, and when white persons speak of native and white, pakeha and native are the distinguishing terms used.
As the Pakeha fly has driven out the Maori fly; As the Pakeha grass has killed the Maori grass; As the Pakeha rat has slain the Maori rat; As the Pakeha clover has starved the Maori fern, So will the Pakeha destroy the Maori.
Even the Pakeha flea has come over in the ships, and wonderfully has he thriven.
The Pakeha and Maori had agreed upon a price; the question that remained for settlement was how the money should be shared.
He says his pakeha was to have brought plenty of guns and powder, and he has not brought any.
If a Maori kill a Pakeha or a Maori now, the Maori is hung by the law.
That's why tapu would cost much for a pakeha to touch it.
My father fought with Pakeha then, why not me to-day?
Like many more old customs, it is now nearly quite forgotten; the Pakeha handshaking and the Pakeha kissing having altogether superseded it.
I suppose that nowhere in the North could you find places where there is less of Pakeha civilization and more of ancient Maori manners, than in one or two of these.
What gave him his particular sanctity or dignity, how he was chosen, set apart, or elected to office, are things that no Pakeha can understand.
Of course no Maori, however Christianized or civilized he may be, will knowingly trespass within their limits; but Pakeha do so frequently.
They are always very desirous to get up alliances between the races, and will do anything to induce a Pakeha to marry a Maori girl.
It has quite taken to Pakeha domination, apparently, and could probably be domesticated.
In the best and foremost of the Maori girls of the period there is a constant struggle between the acquired Pakeharefinements and the primitive habits of the kainga.
It is tolerably nutritious, but not particularly nice, according to Pakeha notions.
At last they began to bring produce to the nearest Pakeha market, and to buy stores, though still maintaining their reserve.
It is evident that, as civilization advances, and as Pakeha grow more numerous in the country, the Maori are disappearing faster and faster.
These witches gathered round the young belle, loudly expressing their admiration, and fingering over her Pakeha attire.
They have come to see the Pakeha in their mad state.
Of course, no Maori will go very near it, and the few Pakeha of the district who know its whereabouts would not break the tapu, having too much to lose, and not caring to risk Maori wrath.
The Pakeha wants so much; the Maori offers so little.
To their ideas of equity, the imprisonment counted for nothing, it was simply one of the stupid Pakeha customs, and had merely delayed the course of real (Maori) justice.
Lie down again amongst the rushes," entreated Whero, "or we may meet some other pakehawho will know your English face.
Was it for this, mother, you sent a pakeha to dig up the bag we buried by the white pines?
Our own people cannot help in this matter; we must go to the pakeha chiefs.
The pakeha seeks out the pakeha, but no man turns to the Maori pah!
Where could he meet this pakehaand I not know, that he should trust him to look for his hoard?
It was scarcely worth the Professor's while to take notice of mere examples of pakeha ignorance of Maori.
We do not want the missionaries from the Bay of Islands, they arepakeha maori, or whites who have become natives.
A Pakeha Maori is an Englishman who lives as a Maori with the Maoris.
It is not fit that a daughter of the great tribe should be the slave-wife of the pakeha and the slave of the white wahine.
The Pakeha Maori, already quoted, saw a Maori Tohunga perform 'a very good miracle as times go,' but he does not give any particulars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pakeha" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
